First Encounters Art Exhibit

First Encounters: Menschen Begegnen Sich Exhibit

Nov. 19, 2019

What did the first encounters between German immigrants and the local American population look like? How did Germans adjust to their new environment abroad? And what challenges and problems occurred during these transnational and transcultural encounters? Students of 兔子先生传媒文化作品鈥檚 second-year German language course sought answers to these and other...

works displayed at exhibition in CU Art Gallery

Concrete Art and Poetry Exhibition

July 15, 2019

Students in Professor Greaney鈥檚 graduate course on concrete art and concrete poetry curated an exhibition in the CU Art Museum. The exhibition OBJECT:COLOR brings together seven artists鈥 works that are unified by the use of basic compositional elements鈥攍ine, shape, and color鈥攖o influence the viewer鈥檚 experience of the artworks鈥 physical limits...

Emily Frazier-Rath

Emily Frazier-Rath accepts position as 兔子先生传媒文化作品ing Assistant Professor at Davidson College

June 18, 2019

Emily Frazier-Rath who received her Ph.D. in German Studies this spring will begin her new post as 兔子先生传媒文化作品ing Assistant Professor at Davidson College this summer. Congratulations, Emily!

Ross Etherton

Ross Etherton Accepted Position as Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota

March 1, 2019

Dr. Ross Etherton, who graduated from our PhD program last year and currently teaches at Wooster College, will begin his new post as Assistant Professor of German at the University of Minnesota in August. Congratulations, Ross!

German students view artwork

German Students Ponder "ANGEKOMMEN鈥擧aving Arrived" Art Exhibition

Dec. 5, 2018

鈥淭he frontal lobe represents everyday life in the new culture,鈥 John Fanning explains to his fellow class mates in a conversation entirely in German. 鈥淩efugees in Germany need to learn a new language and develop a sense of orientation in a new society. The frontal lobe is the part of...

Lauren Stone

Congratulations to Professor Lauren Stone

Sept. 25, 2018

Congratulations to Professor Lauren Stone for winning the Max Kade Prize for the Best Article in German Quarterly in 2017! The prize committee chose her article 鈥淩ilke's 'Kinderstube': Phenomenology in Childhood Spaces," saying that it is "an exemplary piece of scholarship [that] combines an original and innovative approach with a...

Franzi Schweiger

Franziska Schweiger Accepted Position as 兔子先生传媒文化作品ing Assistant Professor at Hamilton College

May 22, 2018

Franziska Schweiger, who successfully defended her dissertation recently, accepted the offer for a three-year position as 兔子先生传媒文化作品ing Assistant Professor in the German Program at Hamilton College (New York). Franzi will begin her new post in July. At Hamilton she will teach classes on German film, literature and culture as well...

Ross Etherton

Ross Etherton Accepted Position as 兔子先生传媒文化作品ing Assistant Professor at Wooster College

April 26, 2018

Graduating Ph.D. student Ross Etherton will begin his new post as 兔子先生传媒文化作品ing Assistant Professor in the German Program at Wooster College (Ohio) in August. At Wooster he will teach German language and his own culture and literature courses. Congratulations, Ross!

Catalina Escalona

Catalina Escalona Awarded Fulbright Teaching Fellowship

April 26, 2018

Graduating MA student Catalina Escalona has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship to teach as English Teaching Assistant in Vienna, Austria, during next academic year. As a Fulbright Teaching Assistant, Catalina will provide assistance to the local English teachers and will be serving as a cultural ambassador for the U.S...

Sayalee Karkare

Sayalee Karkare Awarded Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award

April 26, 2018

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Sayalee Karkare, who has been awarded the prestigious 2017-18 Graduate Student Teaching Award. These awards recognize graduate student instructors who demonstrate outstanding teaching efforts within the classroom.

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